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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Coulibaly Jacqueline <jacqueline.coulibaly3@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 23:02:11 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Please confirm your readiness to receive this payment?


:::::::::::::personal service to assist your memory:::::::::::::


Mrs. Jacqueline Coulibaly.
{HSBC} Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
Address: Rajalakshmi, No 5 & 7 Cathedral Road Chennai-600086
Telex: 73201 HKBG HX
www.hsbcbusinessdirect.co.in

Sir/Madam,

Re; Payment notification of GBP £10million exactly.
Though I have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have approached you on this issue being that the INTERNET has been greatly abused over the recent years and is much unsecured for information of vital importance. I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-MAIL.

I am writing to notify you that last Friday, the management of HSBC, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, received a pre-advice instruction from the foreign remittance department of Banque Centrale des Etates de l'Afrique de l'ouest (Central Bank of West African states). Asking HSBC to re-confirm within 24hours, the account information of Engr. Jason Raines, your supposed Uncle. For the immediate remittance of GBP £10,000.000.00 (Ten million British pounds sterling exactly). Being payment for the supply contract Engr. Jason Raines executed for the Peoples Republique of Benin in the year 2007.

Unfortunately, the management of HSBC, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, cannot meet-up with that requirement because your Uncle's account with the institute was closed during the end of 2012 general auditing exercise, following your Uncle's death in a railroad accident, here in India.

Nevertheless, as an accountant in HSBC, I took it upon myself and carried out an investigation on the account opening information of the late Engr. Jason Raines. The account record has it that you are the next of kin to Engr. Jason Raines. Hence I am contacting you with my personal e-mail address jacqueline.coulibaly5@yahoo.com.hk

At the moment, Banque Centrale des Etates de l'Afrique de l'ouest (Central Bank of West African states) are waiting for the re-confirmation of Engr. Jason Raines’s account for the remittance of the above mentioned amount of money. And I will feel honored if you could apply to open a new account with us at {HSBC} Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, for the remittance of the said money. Or on the alternative, you can make a direct contact to Banque Centrale des Etates de l'Afrique de l'ouest (Central Bank of West African states) and arrange with them on how to receive the money since you are the next of kin to the original beneficiary. Please see below address, for the second option;

Banque Centrale des Etates de l'Afrique de l'ouest
(Central Bank of West African states)
Foreign Remittance Department
Boulevard de France,
08 BP 0879 - Cotonou – BENIN REPUBLIQUE
Télephone/Fascimile: + (229)-93-813-977
Email: banquecentrale@hotmail.com

Note: It is important that you act immediately. I would also respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this e-mail. To the best of my knowledge, I have discharged my duty with equity.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Jacqueline Coulibaly.

WARNING: If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately and destroy the message without disclosing its contents to anyone.  Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized.

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